Can filepro do drill downs like acess?

[Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services]

> can filepro do things that look like acces drill downs?
> can we compete with this kind of programing?
> thanks
> old tony

	One way I've simulated drill downs is with browse lookups.  Another
is with opening up additional *clerk sessions.

	I kind of miss the old "NuViews" database.  It was built around the
concept of drilldowns.  However, that was just about the *only* thing that
NuViews did well... <grin>  

	Actually, the accountants killed NuViews when I was doing
programming at one of the Fortune 500 companies, because when users drilled
down to previous accounting periods, they were allowed to *change* the data,
and that meant that there was no way to permanently close an accounting
period.  (Access still has that problem, I believe.  There's no way to
prevent a user from drilling down into the order history and changing or
even deleting an order from last month or even last year.)

	That's why drill down databases are seldom used for any type of
accounting function.

Mike Schwartz
PC Support & Services